So by your logic a train exerts no force on the tracks its sitting on because its physically touching the track. So how does it move then genius?
If this thing is moving on tracks on the space station its exerting a force on that track (or on some pully mechanism) or it wouldn't move. This in turn will cause the station to move somehow, most likely it'll induce a torque if its not mounted exactly dead centre and will cause the station to spin very slightly until an opposite force is exerted to stop it either by thrusters or by the train when it stops.
Go back to Physics 101 , you need a refresher course mate. Concentrate on the conservation of momentum chapter.
Have you ever done physics? No , didn't think so. If you push against something in space it will move away from you in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter if its a space station , a rock or a martian. If this train pushes against the space station to move the space station will move too. Imbecile.
If the train moves at 2.5 cm/s in one direction carrying 20 tonnes then newtons laws dictate that the space station will move in the opposite direction (at presumably a lower speed cos it weights more). Won't this use up a lot of thruster fuel trying to counteract this?
Possible a warning to the US FCC if they try and get a bit carried away with the whole "wow its digital it must be good" marketing BS. The truth is that your average Joe doesn't give a damn whether his TV signal is analogue , digital or gets send via carrier pidgeon , as long as he can watch football / soaps etc and the picture isn't too crap (in fact in a lot of cases an analogue signal gives a superior picture but thats another argument)
How would they just "flip a switch" and switch off your signal without switching off the signal of everyone else who relies on that transmitter too? Or do you think all british TVs are encoded with some viewing control chip? As for the cost of the license fee , jesus , £100 quid a year? Yeah that really breaks the bank doesn't it. I'm quite happy to pay it if I don't have to watch 15 mins of moronic ads every hour like on the commercial channels.
YOu mean the OS whereby if you mount a floppy disk and then remove it without unmounting it the whole OS crashes without even a panic message? Yeah , very stable.
Fantastic , more bloatware eyecandy
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Just what Linux needs really , more bloatware that sucks up CPU cycles and brings a low spec machine to a halt for no good reason. Another well known OS did just that and look what happened to it!... no wait , hold on... errr
Are you for real? The last thing most people want to have to do when designing a piece of software that can take dynamic extension is have to worry about the vaguiaries of some scripting language since then you not only have to worry about your own bugs but bugs in the language itself. I had to do something like that with Tcl. Never again! The interpreter was so ridden with memory leaks that we had to withdraw our software and rewrite it with tcl removed. Anyway , so what if different programs have different plugin architectures. Would you expect to be able to use your netscape flash plugin with MySql or something? I fail to see the issue.
... but writing plugins is easy. People love to talk them up and make it sound like its some sort of black magic but its nothing of the sort. All a plugin is is bunch of new functions your app can call via function pointers (if using dlopen() etc) that have a standardised interface. Its not rocket science , and in fact in a lot of cases its a damn site easier than having to use so called common standards which sometimes throw so much overhead in that you wonder why you bothered.
Why is it that these so called "visionaries" about man-computer interfacing are so keen on pluggint stuff into themselves. Not just Dr Mann but Captain Cyborg Kevin Warwick. Is it anything other than some hi-tech version of getting a piercing? I don't think it is, I reckon they get some fetishistic kick out of it.
You should live where I live , all they play is ghetto music shit. Sometimes I wonder if I should go buy a thick gold chain and learn to move my arms like an angry chimp when I talk.
...there might be more room for stations. But instead they only use the odd frequencies (.3.5) etc. In europe you don't have to have such a large physical seperation between transmitters on say 90.1 and 90.2 as you would if both were on 90.1. So you can squeeze more stations onto the band. The US/Canadian system is wasteful of bandwidth.
The day was shorter in times past but you'd have to go back to a time a lot further back than 100 million years to find when it was 18 hours long. The reason the days are slowly getting longer is that the earth is losing angular momentum to the moon which is hence speeding up and slowly moving further away. I've seen quotes that around the time of the dinosaurs the days were approx 22-23 hours long.
Its bloody boring and time consuming. Some people are into hardware , I'm not. To hell with the cost savings , we're not all poor students. As for putting in what I like , well you can usually spec what you want from most PC manufacturers anyway so I'll already know whats in it and if I want to double check I take the lid off and look. "Building" your own PC is just Lego for adults.
Sorry , your analogy is poor. I don't remember suggesting refining silicon from sand or manufacturing plastics from oil. HOwever , designing the circuitboard down to at least the chip level (the equivalentr of your bricks) is an intrinsic part of really BUILDING a machine , not simple assembling a kit of parts. Any muppet can do that , I've had to do it for work plenty of times, its a no brainer.
Well I might, but only if I can't find any paint to watch drying or some nice lush grass growing. Lets be honest , you're not "building" a computer , you're slotting bits together and screwing in some screws. To really build your own machine you'd first need to get a degree in electronic engineering and then get down to designing your own motherboard and work from there.
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Gives a too many commands error. Perhaps a bit more debugging required hmm?
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Bollocks.
So by your logic a train exerts no force on the tracks its sitting on because its physically
touching the track. So how does it move then genius?
If this thing is moving on tracks on the space station its exerting a force on that track (or
on some pully mechanism) or it wouldn't move. This
in turn will cause the station to move somehow,
most likely it'll induce a torque if its not mounted exactly dead centre and will cause the
station to spin very slightly until an opposite force is exerted to stop it either by thrusters or
by the train when it stops.
Go back to Physics 101 , you need a refresher course mate. Concentrate on the conservation of
momentum chapter.
Have you ever done physics? No , didn't think so. If you push against something in space it will
move away from you in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter if its a space station , a rock or
a martian. If this train pushes against the space station to move the space station will move too.
Imbecile.
If the train moves at 2.5 cm/s in one direction carrying 20 tonnes then newtons laws dictate that
the space station will move in the opposite direction (at presumably a lower speed cos it
weights more). Won't this use up a lot of thruster fuel trying to counteract this?
Ah stop whining, £100 a year is nothing. You probably spend more on bog rolls.
Possible a warning to the US FCC if they try and get a bit carried away with the whole "wow its
digital it must be good" marketing BS. The truth is that your average Joe doesn't give a damn
whether his TV signal is analogue , digital or gets send via carrier pidgeon , as long as he can
watch football / soaps etc and the picture isn't too crap (in fact in a lot of cases an analogue
signal gives a superior picture but thats another
argument)
How would they just "flip a switch" and switch off your signal without switching off the signal
of everyone else who relies on that transmitter too? Or do you think all british TVs are encoded
with some viewing control chip?
As for the cost of the license fee , jesus , £100 quid a year? Yeah that really breaks the bank doesn't it.
I'm quite happy to pay it if I don't have to watch 15 mins of moronic ads every hour like on
the commercial channels.
YOu mean the OS whereby if you mount a floppy disk and then remove it without unmounting it
the whole OS crashes without even a panic message? Yeah , very stable.
Just what Linux needs really , more bloatware that sucks up CPU cycles and brings a low spec ... no wait , hold on... errr
machine to a halt for no good reason. Another well known OS did just that and look what happened
to it!
Are you for real? The last thing most people want to have to do when designing a piece of software
that can take dynamic extension is have to worry about the vaguiaries of some scripting language
since then you not only have to worry about your own bugs but bugs in the language itself. I had
to do something like that with Tcl. Never again!
The interpreter was so ridden with memory leaks
that we had to withdraw our software and rewrite it with tcl removed.
Anyway , so what if different programs have different plugin architectures. Would you expect
to be able to use your netscape flash plugin with MySql or something? I fail to see the issue.
... but writing plugins is easy. People love to talk them up and make it sound like its some sort
of black magic but its nothing of the sort. All a plugin is is bunch of new functions your app can
call via function pointers (if using dlopen() etc) that have a standardised interface. Its not
rocket science , and in fact in a lot of cases its a damn site easier than having to use so called
common standards which sometimes throw so much overhead in that you wonder why you bothered.
Why is it that these so called "visionaries" about man-computer interfacing are so keen on
pluggint stuff into themselves. Not just Dr Mann but Captain Cyborg Kevin Warwick. Is it anything
other than some hi-tech version of getting a piercing? I don't think it is, I reckon they get
some fetishistic kick out of it.
I'm sure the bus companies and amtrak will be happy to hear that.
Still using the same install system it had 7 years ago! (And its quite good too as long as
you don't freak out if you can't use a mouse)
Guess it went the same way as Mosaic. Another pioneer bites the dust as seems to be the way
in the technology world.
You should live where I live , all they play is ghetto music shit. Sometimes I wonder if I should
go buy a thick gold chain and learn to move my arms like an angry chimp when I talk.
...there might be more room for stations. But instead they only use the odd frequencies (.3 .5)
etc. In europe you don't have to have such a large physical seperation between transmitters on
say 90.1 and 90.2 as you would if both were on 90.1. So you can squeeze more stations onto the
band. The US/Canadian system is wasteful of bandwidth.
The day was shorter in times past but you'd have to go back to a time a lot further back than
100 million years to find when it was 18 hours long.
The reason the days are slowly getting longer is that the earth is losing angular momentum to the moon which is hence speeding up and slowly moving
further away.
I've seen quotes that around the time of the dinosaurs the days were approx 22-23 hours long.
Its bloody boring and time consuming. Some people are into hardware , I'm not. To hell with the cost
savings , we're not all poor students.
As for putting in what I like , well you can usually spec what you want from most PC
manufacturers anyway so I'll already know whats
in it and if I want to double check I take the lid off and look.
"Building" your own PC is just Lego for adults.
If China invaded Tiawan I think the US would have more important things to worry about than the
supply of iMacs drying up.
Sorry , your analogy is poor. I don't remember suggesting refining silicon from sand or manufacturing
plastics from oil. HOwever , designing the circuitboard down to at least the chip level (the
equivalentr of your bricks) is an intrinsic part of really
BUILDING a machine , not simple assembling a kit of parts. Any muppet can do that , I've had to do
it for work plenty of times, its a no brainer.
Well I might, but only if I can't find any paint to watch drying or some nice lush grass growing.
Lets be honest , you're not "building" a computer , you're slotting bits together and
screwing in some screws. To really build your own machine you'd first need to get a degree
in electronic engineering and then get down to
designing your own motherboard and work from there.
Still doesn't work. I just think the programs too big for our version of sed.
Gives a too many commands error. Perhaps a bit more debugging required hmm?
What next , people using FrontPage get called computer scientists?
There are plenty of alternatives available
which don't support BHO.